Quotes About Work

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

Documentary is thought to be art when it transcends its reference to the world, when the work can be regarded, first and foremost, as an act of self-expression on the part of the artist.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act as if it were, leaving reward aside.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

A lot of women I worked with didn't respect their clients. I had some clients who didn't respect me, but still you somehow made it work.